The long struggle of Nigerian entertainers with gender expectations, and in particular what feminism actually is, is well documented. From WizKid threatening to send his 16-year-old cousin to beat up Linda Ikeji to Davido recently body-shaming (and apologizing to) a young woman who questioned his political motivations, from Omotola Jalade Ekeinde’s “I don’t believe God made […]
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Cassava Republic Shortlisted for Small Press of the Year at the British Book Awards
UK-based Nigerian publishing company Cassava Republic has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards’ inaugural Small Press of the Year recognition. The award, sponsored by CPI Group, was “launched to celebrate the innovative and nimble publishers making names for themselves outside the mainstream.” Among the 41 presses shortlisted across the award’s nine regional and country […]
Someone Has to Tell These Stories | Interview with Poet Chibụìhè Achịmbá
Chibụìhè Achịmbà is a queer poet, essayist and photographer from Nigeria. He is a 2018 Fellow of Ebedi International Writers Residency, winner of the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award, a finalist for the 2018 Gerald Kraak Award, and was recently longlisted for the 2018 Koffi Addo Prize. He won the 2016 Babishai Niwe Haiku prize and […]
Chigozie Obioma Treats Madison to An Orchestra
As part of the Wisconsin Book Festival, Chigozie Obioma was in Madison, Wisconsin, on February 6, 2019 to discuss his latest offering, An Orchestra of Minorities. The Wisconsin Book Festival is an annual celebration of literary creativity in Madison, Wisconsin. The festival hosts writers every year and draws people from neighboring Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, and […]
What Really Is Political Correctness? The LGBTQI+ Struggle, Western Reactionaries, and the Sociohistorical Context Encouraging a Literary Magazine to Provoke | Kamau Muiga
1. Every year thousands of students would pour into Nakuru Town’s Christ the King auditorium in all their cultural beauty to perform the dances, verses, plays and stories that carried the day at the zonal levels of the nationwide drama festival. Students from Njoro Boys High School, infamous all over Kenya for their rowdiness, would […]
Sarah Waiswa’s Twitter Thread on African Women Photographers Is a Visual Fest
Recently on Twitter, the Ugandan-born Kenya-based photographer Sarah Waiswa gave us a curation of stunning photos by African female photographers. It is a long thread, containing brief introductions to the artists and their projects, with photos from said projects. Among photographers whose work were tweeted are Kenyan photographer Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Ivorian photographer Joana Choumali, South African artist […]
Genesis | Kharys Laue | Poetry
I The beginning contains a seed of the end. II A man stands at the foot of the mountain. Naked, head bowed. Face rectangular and rough and red as a brick. Russet beard cut square at the jaw. Delicate sheath of skin, hardly sufficient for survival. He gazes without vision at his feet, bare […]
GoFundMe | Donate to Help Egyptian Writer and Feminist Icon Nawal El Saadawi Undergo Medical Care
The Egyptian writer and feminist icon Nawal El Sadaawi is ill. To foot her medical bills, a GoFundMe appeal was set up on February 13 to raise $20,000. So far, 76 people have responded with donations amounting to $4,780. The author, in Arabic and in English, of sixteen novels, fifteen nonfiction books, nine short story […]
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